But, sayd his Lordship, Hope is a good Breakfast but an ill
Supper.
When his Lordship was in disfavour, his neighbours,
hearing how much he was indebted, came to him with a Motion
to buy Oake-wood of him. His Lordship told them, He would
not sell his Feathers.
The Earle of Manchester being removed from his Place of
Lord chiefe Justice of the Common-Pleas to be Lord President
of the Councell, told my Lord (upon his Fall) that he was ^sorry
to see Him made such an Example. Lord Bacon replied //
did not trouble him, since he was made a President.
The Bishop of London did cutte-downe a noble Clowd
of Trees at Fulham. The Lord Chancellor told him that he
was a good Expounder of darke places.
Upon his being in Dis-favour his Servants suddenly went
away; he compared them to the flying of the Vermin when
the Howse was falling.
One told his Lordship it was now time to looke about
him. He replyed: I do not looke about me, I looke above
me.
Sir Julius Caesar (Master of the Rolles) sent to his Lordship
in his necessity a hundred pounds for a Present.
His Lordship would often drinke a good draught of strong
Beer (March-beer) to-bedwards, to lay his working Fancy
asleep, which otherwise would keepe him from sleeping great
part of the night.
I remember Sir John Danvers told me, that his Lordship
much delighted in his curious pretty garden at Chelsey, and
as he was walking there one time he fell downe in a dead-
sowne. My Lady Danvers rubbed his face, temples, etc., and
gave him cordiall water; as soon as he came to himselfe, sayde
he, Madam) I am no good footman.
I will write something of Verulam, and his House at
Gorhambery. At Verulam is to be seen, in some few places,
some remaines of the Wall of this Citie. This magnanimous
Lord Chancellor had a great mind to have made it a Citie again:
and he had designed it, to be built with great uniformity : but
Fortune denyed it Him, though she proved kinder to the great
Cardinal Richelieu, who lived both to designe and finish that
specious Towne of Richelieu, where he was borne; before, an
obscure and small Vilage.
Within the bounds of the Walls of this old Citie of Verulam
(his Lordship's Baronry) was Verulam-howse; which his
Lordship built, the most ingeniosely contrived little pile, that
ever I sawe. No question but his Lordship was the chiefest